Mouthpiece attachment for telephones.



PATENTED DEC. 5, 1905.

S E w MH AP Du L E T "5 F T Wm S M mm T T A P. E H H MT U 0 M I APPLICATION FILED MAR-6, 1906.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

METTA FRANCES HUBBARD PHILLIPS AND WILLIAM BECK HUBBARD, OF

' BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IVI'OUTHPIECE ATTACHMENT FOR TELEPHONES- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 5, 1905.

Application filed March 6, 1906. Serial No. 248,612.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, METTA FRANCES HUB- BARD' PHILLIPS and WILLIAM BECK HUBBARD, citizens of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mouthpiece Attachments for Telephones; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in mouthpiece attachments for telephone-transmitters.

The object of the invention is to provide an antiseptic attachment or covering for the mouthpiece of the transmitter of telephones which may be quickly and easily attached to said mouthpiece'and which will not in any manner interfere with the operation of the transmitter.

A further object is to provide a device of this character which will be simple and inexpensive in construction, thus permitting the same to be manufactured and given away as advertising mediums and which will be absolutely germ-proof, thus preventing any possibility of disease being transmitted by the mouthpiece of telephones.

With these and other objects inview the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, combination, and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed. I

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the mouthpiece of the telephone-transmitter, showing the application of the invention thereto. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan View of the blank from which the supporting-ring for the antiseptic disk is formed. Fig. 4: is a sectional view of the same, showing the parts bent in position to receive the antiseptic disk, and Fig. 5 is a detail view of the antiseptic disk.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1 denotes the metallic ring, having formed on its outer edge ductile tongues 2, of which there may be any suitable number, four of said tongues being shown in the present instance. On thering 1 between said tongues are formed segmental flanges 3, which are adapted to be bent rearwardly and inwardly upon the ring 1.

On the ring 1 is arranged a disk 4, which may be constructed of any suitable material the same, which will support said disk in proper position upon said mouthpiece.

The device is simple in construction and may be cheaply manufactured and distributed gratis for advertising purposes.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction and operation of the invention will be readily understood without requiring a more extended explanation.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A detachable mouthpiece for telephones, comprising a sheet-metal ring having peripheral lugs arranged at suitable distances apart thereon, said ring. being also provided with a series of inwardly-curved peripheral edge flanges, interposed between the lugs and having opposite curved ends to permit of said lugs having movement between said curved ends, and a paper disk serving to contact with and held to said ring by having the flanges curved around it, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

METTA FRANCES HUBBARD PHILLIPS. WILLIAM BECK HUBBARD. Witnesses:

LEWIs K. .THURLOW, IVAN H. J OSLIN 

